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ian Institution in Washington on April 22, 

 23 and 24. The program includes accounts of 

 war activities in different branches of science 

 and reports of the results of several important 

 scientific researches by members of the acad- 

 emy and others. The Hale lectures will be 

 given by Professor John C. Merriam, of the 

 University of California. His subject is 

 " The beginnings of human history from the 

 geologic records." 



Professor Comfort A. Ad.\ms, of Harvard 

 University and the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, is the nominee of the directors of 

 the American Institute of Electrical Engineers 

 for president for the year beginning August 1. 



Surgeox-General Sir Alfred ICeogh, 

 G.C.B., has been appointed to the Order of the 

 Companions of Honor for services in connec- 

 tion with the war. 



Dr. Be\j.\min F. Koyer, Harrisburg. acting 

 commissioner of health of Pennsylvania, will 

 deliver the memorial address on the late com- 

 missioner. Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, at the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, on 

 April 9. 



Dr. H. L. Elssell, dean of the college of 

 agriculture of the University of Wisconsin, has 

 been appointed by the Food Administration to 

 take charge of the division of butter and cheese, 

 in succession to Mr. George E. Haskill. 



Professor Cl.\rexce A. Waldo, Ph.D., late 

 of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., re- 

 tired last commencement from the Thayer pro- 

 fessorship of mathematics and applied mechan- 

 ics, as professor emeritus and is now living 

 at 401 West 118th St., New York City. 



James Zetek, professor of biology and hy- 

 giene at the Institute Nacional de Panama, 

 has been appointed entomologist of the Board 

 of Health Laboratory, Ancon Hospital, Canal 

 Zone. 



Dr. Harry B. Tocom, professor of zoology 

 at Washburn College, has been commissioned 

 first lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps and 

 ordered to report for duty to Fort Sam Hous- 

 ton, San Antonio, Texas. 



Dr. John W. Kisiball, instructor in chem- 

 istry and physics at the dental school of West- 



ern Reserve University, has been called to 

 Washington to undertake chemical work for 

 the Army. Dr. Kimball has been granted leave 

 of absence from the university and will leave 

 immediately to take up his new work. 



Professor Elmer P. Kohler, of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry of Harvard University, has 

 gone to Washington and will give his whole 

 time, at least until the beginning of the next 

 academic year, to chemical research for the 

 national government. He ■w'ill be at the ex- 

 periment station of the Bureau of Mines as 

 assistant to the director in charge of research 

 problems. 



Francis C. Fr.\ry, research chemist of the 

 Aluminum Company of America, has been 

 commissioned as captain in the ordnance re- 

 serve corps and assigned to research work in 

 the trench warfare section. Engineering Bu- 

 reau office of the chief of ordnance, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



John G. Frayne, an instructor in physics at 

 the University of Minnesota, has enlisted in 

 the signal corps of the army and will be sent to 

 France. 



Dr. B. Fr.\nklin Eoyer, who has been chief 

 medical inspector of the Pennsylvania State 

 Department of Health for a number of years 

 and who has supervised the work in the Har- 

 risburg office during the long illness of Dr. 

 Samuel G. Dixon, has been appointed acting 

 health chief, pending the selection of a perma- 

 nent successor to the late commissioner. 



Dr. Robert A. Lyster, lecturer in public 

 health and forensic medicine at St. Bartholo- 

 mew's Hospital, and county medical officer for 

 Hampshire, has been elected editor of Puhlic 

 Health. 



Professor Frederic J. Cheshire, director 

 of the department of technical optics at the 

 Imperial College of Science and Technology, 

 has been reelected president of the Optical 

 Society of Great Britain. 



ilR. Clyde L. Patch, of the Victoria Mem- 

 orial Museum, Ottawa, lectured on " Local 

 Snakes, Frogs and Salamanders: their rela- 

 tion to agriculture," on February 5, under the 

 auspices of the Ottawa Field Naturalists Club. 



